Pitcairn, David
(1749-1809)
David Pitcairn (1749–1809) was associated with the American Revolutionary era as a doctor. The biographical details in this entry are based on the record titled “David Pitcairn.”
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David Pitcairn was born on May 1, 1749 in Fife, Scotland. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies David Pitcairn with work or public activity as a doctor. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. David Pitcairn died on Apr 17, 1809 in London, England. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.













